Mapping Responsibility: Choice, Guilt, Punishment, and Other Perspectives

by Herbert Fingarette

Herbert Fingarette explores the terrain of moral responsibility. As a philosophical idea, responsibility poses vexing questions such as what does it mean to be a responsible person? or i why is it that some individuals are causaly responsible for something, but not legally or morally accountable? And what is the authority that holds people responsible for their actions?
In exploring these, Fingarette employs a diversse range of ideas including standpoints of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology. Free of academic jargon and dense references, Mapping Responsibility is written to appeal to the general reader as well as his followers in the scholarly community.

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2004

About the author

Herbert Fingarette was an American philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles under the direction of Donald Piatt.

Fingarette's work deals with issues in philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, law, and Chinese philosophy.